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Best Defective Poems

Below are the all-time best Defective poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of defective poems written by PoetrySoup members


Born Defective
I come from the land of coffee,
plastic breasts and nonsense,
drugs and narco past, 
very proudly they'll exalt.

Woman so pretty as blow-up doll, 
got so many...

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© Eva Soup  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: defective, community, identity, immigration, political,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Never Enough
Why does the voiceless canary stare so bleakly?
Why do the sullen grey clouds desert a sombre sky?
As the ugly black smog blots out the valiant...

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Categories: defective, environment, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ethereal Lanterns
As the holy season commemorates revelations of scriptures,
Sacred flame burning within, reinvigorates soul’s intellect,
Steering away from the fallible, toward realms of perfect,
Away from servitude of...

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Categories: defective, inspirational, meaningful, uplifting,
Form: Verse
Slamming the Super-Duper-Soupers
you want to know a secret
when I write a poem and it's perfect
i dont share it
i bury it 
deep inside of me 
where no one...

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© Nathan D.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: defective, humor, slam, perspective,
Form: Rubaiyat
Still Called Mother
My body is a graveyard.
I buried you inside this defective womb.
I am less than a woman.
My flesh a fertile tomb.
Tiny ghost.
I will never hold you.

My...

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Categories: defective, baby, bereavement, child, death,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Reflections of a Broken Mirror
In shadows deep, where childhood fears reside,
A father's wrath, a son's tormented life,
A torrent of abuse, a soul's despair,
A question lingers, heavy in the putrid...

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Categories: defective, abuse, child abuse, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It Was One of Those Mornings
It was three o'clock in the morning and my body craved more sleep
I'd been out all night with friends and just fallen into slumber deep
when...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: defective, morning,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Misogynist Homophobic People Need To Stop
She stands invisible to any fair go, 
Mentally bashed to a paste,
In a world where she is not wanted, 
Where she is simply erased,

Where none...

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Categories: defective, hurt, identity, society,
Form: Quatrain
A New Hope
When will it be time
For the sublime
For you to be mine
And Let love take a chance

Afford me a second glance
So fate can take a hold
And...

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Categories: defective, lost love, loveheart, feelings,
Form: I do not know?
My Reason
At times the cracks 
within our souls
Are placed there for a
simple reason
Our lives possess 
certain goals
Just assuredly as each 
of the seasons

So we can find...

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Categories: defective, love,
Form: Rhyme
Spinning the Resort
Spinning the Resort

By Elton Camp

For guests the resort does advertise
So it will be desirable in their eyes

Since the building is old and run down:
“Located in...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: defective, funny
Form: Rhyme
This Is Me Letting Go
i've got to find a way to take my mind off her
a way to forget what we once were
a way to move on, to let...

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Categories: defective, sadme,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Way Things Really Were
O, the nights we couldn't stop sweating
  the porch no cooler than our rooms
Enervated, we drove down to the lake
  where 'shore patrol'...

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Categories: defective, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Kin
Most are related to shipwrecked ghosts,
accomplices of my blood
that can still be found
in geographically scattered albums.

When there were cities to occupy,
they lived one level below...

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Categories: defective, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Lay of the Best Man - Part 1
The Lay of The Best Man - Part One

I’ve seen men ‘good’, and surely, I’ve seen men ‘bad’
So jealous and so envious, I’ve seen men...

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Categories: defective, humanity, men,
Form: Lay

Book: Reflection on the Important Things